Sensible Quotes
But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.
And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.
The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.
I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.
At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.
It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.
